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I had forgotten about Edge of Tomorrow, but I am personally unaware of the adaptation quality. Yes, it's a really good movie, but was it accurate? Because if not, refer back to what I said regarding Alita and creative liberties. If it is accurate, then I guess there's an exception to the rule of thumb. It's not like an adaptation can't be good, just that there's nowhere near enough evidence to not reasonably assume it will be shit until proven otherwise.
I think because tom cruise is in it.. seems tom cruise most likely had a lot of opinions and say in how to make a good movie for entertainment purposes.
Was about to mention this... Tom Cruise is a true narcissist who cares that people truly think highly of him, and that's reflective of the movies he chooses to be in. He wants people to actually like his films and for his films to make money, so he goes out of his way to make sure they're successful, or at the very least, entertaining.
Far as I remember, it was as accurate as you can get with the type of story and only adapting a small fraction to a single "finished" product.
Though considering they were adapting a barely known IP, changed the name entirely and barely mentioned the original, its almost not even an adaptation and more like "bought the screenplay then reworked it" of a product.
I only bring it up because its an "exception" that proves its possible but they choose not to put in even the most basic effort.
Sure, I don't disagree. Was just curious if it was an actual adaptation (like most anime is of the manga they're based off), or if it was an "adaptation" like Blade Runner is an "adaptation", in that it's wildly off from the original and just takes some key elements between the two, while still telling a good and compelling story.
Interesting that it seems to be a rather accurate adaption then, considering how rare that is for the west to do.
I think what a lot of these adaptations fuck up (and this applies not just to those of Jap IPs), is they try to tell one of the big grander stories of the franchise to be a big spectacle and draw people in. Something that in the original was an entire season or more, which they then boil down to a single 2 hour or less movie.
Transformers for example is about to try and adapt Beast Wars in a single movie, because it has the biggest fanbase after G1 of the franchise, and its going to work against it.